Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
HE MARTINSBURG HERALDa SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 49,
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

SATURDAY, ~
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Snow is reported to have fallen in
Davis Saturday morning.
The coal miners in Indiana are
still out on strike, and 1890 OF
them are IDLE.
VIM. Harteny, af Reading, Pa,
fell into a kettle of boiling catsnp
and was scalded to death
1t is reported that the tobacco
crop in Campbell county, Va, has
been entirely ruined by frost.
An attempt was made to wreck
the ST.. Louis express train near
North Pownal, Vt, by piling ties on
the track.
The arrest of an American Protes-
tant missionary in the Caroline Is
lands led the natives to OverpOwer
the Spanish garrison.
PENNINGTON, Me-, September %.
Snow fell north of here this morn
ing, covering the tops of the Old
Blue and other mountains.
John Graham and Charles Blew
ms, outlaws in Pleasant Valley, Arr
iona, refused to surrender to the
sheriff, and he shot them dead.
The trial of Ann Offner for the
killing of her paramour, Benjamin
Brooks, near Romney. W. Va, be.
gan in the Circuit Court of that
county.
| Three children, while playing on
the Island of Orleans, Quebec, where
recent military exhibitions had been
given, found a she'll which exploded
and killed them all.
The New York, Chicago and st.
Louis Railroad, the Cleveland State
Line road, and the Fort Wayne and
Illinois line, have been consolidated,
with a view to completing the Van.
derbilt system to the West. ~
LYNCHBURG, Va, September '25.
There was frost throughout this
section of the state last night, and
there are fears OF great loss in the
tobacco crop, estimated at one.third
of the crop yet in the field.
| PARIS, Sept. 25.-The Gaalois
publishes a report, which it does not
credit, to the effect that the remains
of Napoleon I, have been stolen from
the tomb, in the Hotel DIES Invalides,
and cast to the winds.
Mr.. William O'Brien, editor of the
United ireland, who was arrested
under the crimes act at Mitchells.
town, ireland, during the recent
troubles there, has been tried, found
guilty and sentenced to 3 months
Imprisonment. af
1t is said taat on the fourth divi
sion of the B. & o. r. r., water is
so scarce that special water trains
have to be run to supply engines at
failing stations. Between Wheeling
and Pittsburg there is only one wa.
ter station that has not failed to
give the necessary supply.
j. A Stewart, drug clerk, Of
Wichita, Kas., has been sentenced
to seventeen years and four months
in Jail and fined $1,000, for violating
the prohibition law of the State
Stewart plead guilty to an indict
ment containing 1850 counts. The
punishment imposed upon him is the
heaviest ever given for violation Of
the liquor laws.
Brownsville, Texas, emerged Fri
day from a hurricane which lasted
for thirty. five hours, blowing down
houses, fences and trees, butso fal
as heard from, causing no deaths
There will be great suffering among
the very poor, it is reported, unless
aid is promptly extended, as many
of them have been rendered home
less and are without food. .eas
WESTMINSTER, September 25.-
Two colored men named Dunson
and Hill, of New Windsor, went by
train to Union Bridge last night
They started to walk home about
midnight. A track walker on the
Western Maryland Railroad found
the body of one of the men near Lin
wood, and the body of the other was
near Pine Creek this morning. Both
bodies we're horribly mangled. 1t is
said that both men were intoxicated
when they left Uuion Bridge, and
that they were run over by night
freight. a, se., .... i......
JACKSON, TENN, September 81
One of the worst wrecks which
ever occurred on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad happened about two
miles south of this place this morn
ing. An entire passenger train, ex.
cept the engine, was hurled from a
trestling while running forty.miles
an hour, and over thirty persons
were injured, though, by what seems
almost mil acle, none were killed.
The coaches we're thrown forty feet
from the track, and some turned
completely over. The scene was al
most indeScribable, women and
children screaming for help and re-
lease from the closed cars.
DON'T EXPERIMENT.
You cannot afford to waste time in ex.